Proverbs
26:2—
As a fluttering sparrow, or a
flying swallow will
alight, so a curse causeless will not come.
In the beginning, Yahweh created all
things. Yahweh created the earth and all the other planets. Yahweh set
Laws in motion to keep all of His creation in a set order.
The Earth is special to Yahweh. From Earth, it was Yahweh's plan, from the beginning, to create man in His own image. Yahweh wants a family of beings like Himself. Yahweh wants His family to be perfect in righteousness, as He is. Yahweh wants His family to communicate with Him, as their Heavenly Father, and enjoy life with Him, throughout all eternity.
Earth is the proving ground to train man in the Laws of the Kingdom of Heaven. These Laws of Yahweh are a guide now, and will be a guide forever to perfect righteousness.
To become a member of the Yahweh family, one
must understand these Laws. One must know how and why the Laws of
Yahweh are vital to life, now and for all eternity.
Satan rebelled against Yahweh's Laws. Satan did not have the perfect character which Yahweh has, which is the same character Yahweh wants and demands from each of His family members. Just as a loving father wants his son to be righteous and have a joyful life, Yahweh wants this for His children. If one is righteous, he will not bring harm to himself or others. He will want the best for others as well as for himself. He will be just as concerned for the well-being of others as he is concerned for his own well-being. This is Yahweh's character.
The name Yahweh means I
am what I choose to be. Yahweh chooses to be perfect in
righteousness. Perfect righteousness is the only way all family members
can live in peace and joy. When Yahweh's plan is finished, only the
ones who choose by their own free will to be totally righteous as
Yahweh is, will inherit eternal life. The totally righteous will be in
the family who Yahweh planned from the beginning. Yahweh's family will
have joy and peace, as never before dreamed of by mankind.
One can easily see Yahweh's Laws working today. These are the same Laws Yahweh created in the beginning.
The entire universe is governed by Laws which Yahweh created. All living things operate according to the Laws Yahweh created. When these Laws are observed and kept, there are definite beneficial results. When these Laws are disregarded or disobeyed, there are certain, definite evil consequences. To observe and keep Yahweh's Laws bring physical and spiritual blessings of joy, health and long life.
Yahweh's Laws are no respecter of persons. It matters not if one is rich, poor, black or white, the penalty comes when one breaks any of these Laws.
Yahweh blessed King Solomon, who wrote most of the Proverbs, with wisdom. Solomon wrote:
As a fluttering sparrow, or a flying swallow will alight, so a curse causeless will not come.
As sure as life and death, the effect
that breaking the Laws Yahweh set in motion is a curse.
If one disregarded the law of gravity and jumped off a ten-story building, the curse would be effected by that one being suddenly drawn to earth, and more than likely, to his death. He would be reaping the consequences of breaking this law, created for man's well-being. When he breaks this law, the consequence is an evil effect, which in this case, would be serious injury, or more likely, death.
Laws of agriculture, electronics, biology, chemistry, etc., were all made for man's benefit, but if you break one of these established laws, you will bring harm to yourself or others around you. In the same context, think of the heartache, tears, sufferings and death that have come to millions of people who have deliberately or ignorantly disregarded just the Ten Commandments (Laws) given in Exodus 20:1-17.
If just these ten Laws were kept, think of the
great change for mankind there would be: joy, preservation,
conservation and blessings would abound.
Yahweh gave all Laws of His creation for the benefit of His family to be. By practicing Yahweh's Laws, and letting them become a part of our daily lives, we will reap their benefits and learn that our Heavenly Father Yahweh's way is far superior to man's or Satan's way.
If we love our children, we will want to teach them as Yahweh teaches us. As we train our children in the way of Yahweh, we are actually training our children for the new world to come. In this new world, which is the Kingdom of Yahweh, we will all live in perfect joy under the perfect government of Yahweh.
And you must teach them diligently to your children, and talk about them when you sit in your house, and when you walk on the road, and when you lie down, and when you rise up.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
12 But as many as received Him, to those He gave authority to become the sons of Yahweh to those who believe the testimony of Yahweh—
13 Who are begotten, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of Yahweh.
Furthermore, we have had fleshly fathers who corrected us, and we gave them reverence; should we not even more be subject to Father Yahweh, and live?
We should teach our children to
fear
breaking any of Yahweh's Laws, as you would teach them to fear a den of
rattlesnakes.
When the dietary Laws of Yahweh are mentioned, many people develop frowns on their faces. There has been much deception about these dietary Laws Yahweh set in motion. One may hear such comments as:
"Those Laws were only for the Jews. The Messiah made all meat clean to eat. I have an iron stomach. I can eat anything as long as I give thanks for it before I eat it. It doesn't matter what you eat."
Those who would make these kinds of comments are deceived. At some later date, these same ones may need and receive this information on the dietary Laws of Yahweh from their own doctors, when they are living in pain or near death. This is a true statement. One of the first things a physician will tell a patient with severe heart problems is that this person, in order to live, must alter his or her diet, and no longer eat the very meats forbidden in Yahweh's dietary Laws.
Some will accept the information of these dietary Laws. They will be saved from much of the misery and anguish that so many today are suffering because of their disregard for Yahweh's dietary Laws.
I was at the point of death when Yahweh first revealed His health Laws to me. Now I thank and praise Yahweh that I have the knowledge which has blessed me with health and strength for the thirty plus years since.
Too many people just half-heartedly read about the dietary Laws given by Yahweh. If thorough research and study are put into these Laws of Yahweh, those of you who read this Prophetic Word will easily see why these Laws are so important for man's well-being. Please, don't just skim through these Laws; study them deeply.
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Reverence Yahweh, by observing; keeping His Laws, for this is the whole duty of man.
To the Law and to the Prophecy: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
He who turns away his ear from hearing the Law, even his prayers are an abomination.
When Yahweh created all things, He created some things clean for man to eat and some things unclean. Yahweh commanded man not to eat those things He called unclean. This Law is applicable to the vegetable and animal species. Many herbs are also poisonous to man.
You shall take with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and his female; two each of animals that are unclean, a male and his female;
In this Scripture, we see that certain beasts were created unclean. The word clean comes from the Hebrew word, tahor, which is listed as word #2891 in the Hebrew Dictionary of Strong's Exhaustive Concordance and means pure in a physical, chemical, ceremonial, or moral sense.
This means the clean foods are those foods that are physically and chemically fit for man to eat, as Yahweh created them from the beginning. After Yahweh led the Children of Israyl out of Egypt. He rehearsed these Laws to the people for their well-being.
You shall therefore keep His statutes and His Laws which I command you this day, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land which Yahweh your Father is giving to you for all time.
As stated previously, Yahweh's Laws are for man's well-being. Our well-being is Yahweh's desire for us.
Beloved, I pray above all things that you are successful and are in health; I know it is well with your soul.
In Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14, we find beasts that are physically, chemically, ceremonially, and morally clean for man to eat.
Speak to the children of Israyl, saying; These are the animals you may eat among all the beasts upon the land:
Leviticus 11:3 shows us how we can identify the clean beast from the unclean beast.
You may eat any animal that has a split hoof, completely divided, and which chews the cud; these you may eat.
Leviticus 11:4-7 lists some beasts by name that are unclean for man to eat, such as the camel, coney or rock badger, the hare (rabbit), and swine, which is the pig. These Scriptures explain how these animals are unclean.
4 Nevertheless, there are some that only chew the cud, or only have a split hoof, you must not eat these: the camel, because it chews the cud, but does not have a split hoof, it is unclean to you.
5 The coney, or rock badger, because it chews the cud, but does not have a split hoof, it is unclean to you;
6 The rabbit, because it chews the cud, but does not have a split hoof, it is unclean to you;
7 And the pig, although it has a split hoof completely divided, yet it does not chew the cud; it is unclean to you.
Leviticus 11:9 shows how to identify fish and seafood that are clean for man to eat.
These you may eat of all that are in the waters: whatever has both fins and scales in the waters, whether in the seas or in the rivers, that you may eat.
Bass, crappie, perch, tuna, mackerel, and trout are fish or seafood that have fins and scales. These are, of course, just a few examples. We are shown how to identify fish or seafood that are not clean for man to eat.
10 But everything in the seas or in the rivers that does not have both fins and scales, whether among all the fish that school, or among all the other living creatures in the water: they are an abomination;
11 And they will be an abomination to you. You must not eat their flesh, but you shall regard their carcasses as an abomination.
12 Whatever is in the waters, not having both fins and scales, is to be abominable to you.
The fish and sea creatures that are unclean for man to eat are shrimp, clams, oysters, crabs, lobster, catfish (they do have fins, but they do not have scales), squid, and other similar sea life. Of course, these are but a few examples.
Leviticus 11:13-19 lists the fowl (birds) that are unclean for man to eat, such as the eagle, buzzard, osprey, vulture, the kite species, the raven species, the ostrich, nighthawk, the cuckoo, the hawk species, the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, the swan, pelican, the gier-eagle, the stork, the heron species, the hoopoe and the bat.
13 These you shall regard as abominable among the birds; they shall not be eaten for they are an abomination: the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard,
14 The kite, and the falcon after their kinds;
15 Every raven after its kind,
16 The ostrich, the horned owl, the seagull, and the hawk after its kind;
17 The little owl, the fisher owl, and the screech owl;
18 The white owl, the desert owl, the osprey;
19 The stork, the heron after its kind, the hoopoe, and the bat.
Leviticus 11:20-23 shows the species of insects that are clean for man to eat, and the species of insects that are unclean for man to eat.
20 All flying insects that walk on all fours will be an abomination to you;
21 Yet, these you may eat of every flying insect that walks on all fours: those which have jointed legs above their feet for hopping on the ground.
22 These you may eat: the locust after its kind, the destroying locust after its kind, the cricket after its kind, and the grasshopper after its kind.
23 But every other flying insect which has four feet shall be an abomination to you;
Leviticus 11:44-47 shows us the reason these Laws were given. Man must become holy as Yahweh is holy.
44 I am Yahweh your Heavenly Father. You shall therefore consecrate and sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creature that moves about on the ground.
45 I am Yahweh, Who brought you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your Heavenly Father. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
46 This is the law of the animals, and the birds, and every living thing that moves in the waters, and every creature that moves about on the ground.
47 You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean—between the animal that may be eaten, and the animal that may not be eaten.
The word unclean comes from the Hebrew word tame (taw-may). This word is listed as word #2930 of the Hebrew Dictionary of Strong's Exhaustive Concordance and means foul in a religious sense; defiled, infamous, polluted, pollution, unclean.
Since hog meat (pork) is people's #1 choice meat dish of all the unclean beasts (I don't know why they slight rats, skunks, dogs and cats, which are in the same class), let us consider the diet of this palate tickler.
It is said that swine in the state of Iowa are principally fed on corn, but will eat anything given to them. If anything dies, it is thrown to these hogs. Hogs actually chew at the cancers of other hogs, and these hogs are shipped to market along with the hogs having the cancer.
Many times, cattle are infected from the incurable disease of the hog, called the mad itch. It is transmitted by the hog's saliva left on corn which cattle eat. The itching in the cattle becomes so intense they will run from stump to stump until they rub their skin from their mouths and soon die. Since the saliva from the hog's mouth will poison cattle in this way, how can hogs be fit for man to eat?
It is customary for hog feeders to try to find the cheapest feed possible to fatten out pork for market, such as scrap barrels from restaurants, gooey, oozing, bloody, stinky, rotten, dead chick eggs from hatcheries, guts from slaughter houses and so on.
What a hog eats is on its bones in four hours and ready for consumption by you. What a clean animal eats takes at least 12 hours to be utilized in its system and the energy that is utilized has the poisons and impurities filtered out of its system.
If swine are raised in a feed lot with other animals such as horses or cattle, the swine will eat and drink the very refuse of these animals. This is a common occurrence on small farms where the animals are not separated.
The hog is unclean. Swine actually have running sores under their hooves. Prove this to yourself. Visit a farm where swine are raised, lift up the front hoof of a hog, and apply a little pressure to the hog's toes. You will find greenish matter oozing out from between the toes. This is one small outlet for the various heinous, filthy poisons which that pig has taken into its body.
Quite frequently, this oozing artery becomes stopped up and the poison backs up into the hog's system. When this befalls the pig, it will have very sore feet to the point where it can barely walk. Greenish growths are then formed on various parts of its body. At this point the feed lot operator takes this pig to market for slaughter before this pig dies on him. This is far more common than many may ever believe.
In the 1980's, The Silver Moon Mink Farm of New Holstein, Wisconsin, ordered a supply of beef livers from a meat-packing plant for their mink. The packer shipped them pork liver instead, unknown to the mink farm owner. All the mink died after eating these pork livers.
As a matter of court record, the meat packer paid for many dead mink but let these mink teach us a lesson—don't eat pork at all.
Former Prime Minister of the nation of Israyl, David Ben-Gurion, stated at the Jubilee Celebration of Israyl's Medical Association that Israyl has the lowest death rate in the world. This means Israyl has the highest life expectancy.
The nation of Israyl has prohibited the raising, keeping, or slaughtering of swine, except at Nazareth and six other places which have a large Christian population, who demand the unclean diet. Both Jewish and Moslem religious law forbid the eating of pork.
And said: If you will diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your Father, and do what is right in His sight, and will give ear to His Laws, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon you, which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I am Yahweh Ropheka; Yahweh Your Healer.
Without question, it is because the
people of Israyl as a whole observe the dietary Laws of Yahweh, that
they are protected from untold physical affliction, disease, and
premature death.
Trichinosis is the name of the disease that originates with the Trichina worm, which is scientifically named the trichinella spiralis. The trichina worm is one of the nineteen worms found in swine, not to mention lice on hogs or the various swine diseases such as rickets, thumps, and mange.
The Trichina worm is deadly. In the March 1950 issue of Reader's Digest, Laird S. Goldsborough writes:
"In the pork which we Americans eat, there too often lurk myriads of baffling and sinister parasites. They are minute spiral worms which scientist call Trichinella spiralis.
A single serving of infected pork, even a single mouthful, can kill or cripple, or condemn the victim to a lifetime of aches and pains."
For this unique disease, trichinosis, there is no sure cure, and no drug to stop it. Dr. Goldsborough's article went on to say:
" In the flesh of a
pig, the trichinae are
often so minute and so nearly transparent that, to find
them,
even
with a microscope, is a task for expert scientific inspectors."
Trichinella spiralis.
A. Adult male, x
90.
B. Adult female, x 90.
C. Muscle worm, x 660.
Remember this. When you see stamped on a pork product the words, "United States Government Inspected and Passed," these words do not indicate as to whether this pork is trichina-free or not; it has merely passed the routine inspection given meat in general.
Sir James Paget, who discovered this parasite
in 1835, wrote:
"Fancy the body of a single individual supporting more separately existing creatures than the whole population of the world."
Dr. Maurice C. Hall as Chief of
the
Division of Zoology of the U.S. Public Health Service
commented:
"It appears to be a legitimate demand that, when a man exchanges dollars for pork, he should not do it on the basis that he may be purchasing his death warrant."
Senator Thomas C. Desmond, who
served
as chairman of the New York Trichinosis Commission, stated:
"Physicians have confused trichinosis with some fifty ailments ranging from typhoid fever to acute alcoholism.
That pain in your arm or leg may be arthritis or rheumatism, but it may be trichinosis. That pain in your back may mean a gall bladder involvement, but it may mean trichinosis."
The daily column "Dr. Lamb" from the Abilene Reporter News, states:
Trichinosis is caused by little worms, and these parasites are in pork. Routine meat inspection doesn't always tell you that it is infected, either. The skin tests that were tried to detect infected pigs haven't really been successful. The first stage of the trichinosis involvement is when the male and female worms unite in the intestine. The intestinal phase may cause diarrhea and digestive symptoms. The second phase is the migration of the larvae into the circulation and throughout the body, particularly causing little cysts inside the muscles. At this stage, there may be swelling around the eyes, muscle pain, and fever.
It has been reported from the laboratory of one of our northern Universities that trichinae-laden swine flesh was heated to an unbelievably high temperature and then put under a microscope. To the amazement of the technicians, some worms were still alive and moving about.
The supposition that all
of these worms can be
killed in cooking is not to be relied upon.
The trichina worm is not the only
parasite on the pig. There is a large round worm, the gullet worm,
three kinds of stomach worm, a tiny hair worm, a hookworm, the
thorn-headed worm, several species of nodular worms, one species of
whip worm in the large intestine (Chitterlings anyone?), and the kidney
worm. The Barnyard Doctor, Drs. Hess and Clark, Ashland,
Ohio.
In another
scientific laboratory,
examinations were made of the joints of arthritic swine. The exact
formation and buildup of arthritic cells were found in the swine as is
common on the arthritis in humans.
DID THE PIGS GET ARTHRITIS FROM
PEOPLE, OR THE PEOPLE GET ARTHRITIS FROM THE PIG?
Could it be, since physicians have confused their diagnosis of trichinosis with fifty different ailments, that this worm could be the cause of one of the greatest killers in America today? An article by Carlyle C. Douglas in Money's Worth, 1975, reads:
Think twice before you eat pork. Pigs kill more Americans every year than traffic accidents, murderers and all other accidents combined. Even wartime enemies have been unable to kill as fast as our own docile, domestic beast. Guns and bombs have proved much less effective than the weapons carried by these hoofed and snouted killers. From farms and feedlots, they stalk us, sniping with pork chops, sausages, hamburgers, (yes not all of them are 100% beef), hog dogs, liver and bacon. The fatal wounds they inflict include coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis, colonic and rectal cancer.
These are not the unsubstantiated claims of wild-eyed vegetarian fanatics, but the carefully considered conclusions of accredited medical scientists. While few have gone so far as to suggest that every pork roast and ham hock be stamped with the kind of warning that cigarette packages carry, a growing body of experts warn that in consuming more than 200 pounds of pork every year, the average American is eating himself to death.
According to the Laws of Yahweh, one who eats pork or any other unclean food is bringing a curse upon himself.
16 For by fire and by His sword will Yahweh plead with all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh will be many.
17 They who sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens, following after the priest in the midst of those who eat swine's flesh, that which is offered to gods (elohim) and the rodent—will be consumed together: says Yahweh.
Many preachers through the deception of Satan have followed the crowd in teaching you that you may eat all beasts. They claim our Savior cleansed the pig from its filth, while ignoring the suffering their teachings bring.
The Arizona Republic, 7-27-81 reads:
300 suffer from food poisoning at Baptist banquet
More than 300 people suffered from food poisoning after they dined on baked ham, candied yams and green peas at a Baptist Conference banquet.
Healthwise, 8-82,
Volume 5,
states:
Trichinosis, a parasitic infestation resulting from eating pork is estimated at 150,000 cases in the USA each year. Many cases are serious. In some cases trichinae spread throughout the body even into the brain. When this occurs, victims may experience unusual drowsiness, clouded consciousness convulsive seizures, weakness and in some cases, paralysis or coma. Prevention is much surer than a cure. The Journal of the American Medical Association points out that even smoked pork sausage can contain live trichinae cysts.
The Saturday Evening Post,
7-8-82, ran an article called "A
Parasite Mystery," showing the
dangers of pork to mankind. We have quoted a small portion here for
your study to show the many diseases that Trichinosis is generally
diagnosed to be:
Trichinosis is generally believed to be a rarity. This view, though hallucinated, is not without explanation. Outbreaks of trichinosis are seldom widely publicized. They are seldom even recognized. Trichinosis is the chameleon of diseases. Nearly all diseases are anonymous at onset, and many tend to resist identification until their grip is well established, but most can eventually be identified by patient scrutiny. Trichinosis is occasionally impervious to bedside detection at any stage. Even blood counts sometimes inexplicably fail to reveal its presence at any stage in its development. As a diagnostic deadfall, it is practically unique. The number and variety of ailments with which it is more or less commonly confused approach the encyclopedic. They include arthritis, acute alcoholism, conjunctivitis, food poisoning, lead poisoning, heart disease, laryngitis, mumps, asthma, rheumatism, rheumatic fever, rheumatic myocarditis, gout, tuberculosis, angioneurotic edema, dermatomyositis, frontal sinusitis, influenza, nephritis, peptic ulcer, appendicitis, cholecystitis, malaria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, para-typhoid fever, undulant fever, encephalitis, gastroenteritis, inter-coastal neuritis, tetanus, pleurisy, colitis, meningitis, syphilis, typhus and cholera. It has even been mistaken for beriberi. With all the rich inducements to error, a sound diagnosis of trichinosis is rarely made, and the diagnostician cannot always take much credit for it.
We are supposed to be
an
enlightened,
Bible-believing, Heavenly Father-reverencing nation and yet we reject
the truths of the very book that many claim to believe. Many who
profess to live holy lives would never defile Yahweh's temple, which is
their bodies, with cigarettes, but will take second-hand,
disease-laden, maggot-infested garbage in the form of pork meat into
these temples and still boldly contend they are keeping their temple
clean. What thinking person can believe that all this vile refuse is
sanctified and made clean because a hog has eaten it?
I have dwelt on swine more in this article because pork is the most commonly eaten unclean beast. But this in no way means that other species of animals, sea life, fowl and insects that Yahweh created to be unclean for man to eat are any less dangerous to your health.
Over the years, I have accumulated news-clippings and articles showing the uncleanness of these unclean animals when man tries to eat them.
One of the more emphatic clippings is from the 12-1-83 issue of the Abilene Reporter News.
Dr. John Wolf, Jr. and Dr. Lee R. Lumpkins III, skin specialists on the faculty of Baylor University said that a study of five leprosy patients suggests strongly that they all contracted leprosy as a result of handling armadillos.
In their paper prepared for publication in the 12-83 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, the physicians said the evidence supporting such a conclusion is quite strong.
The frequency and distribution of leprosy in Texas and Louisiana, coupled with the development of leprosy among armadillo handlers, suggest that armadillos may well serve as a reservoir for the disease.
Four of the leprosy patients spent years catching, cleaning and eating armadillos; and the fifth patient, a 17 year old, had been chasing and wrestling armadillos as a hobby for several years.
My earliest knowledge of the dangers of eating armadillo meat was when a whole family died when they killed and ate an armadillo which had just killed and eaten a centipede. The whole family died of centipede poisoning.
In Dell City, Texas in February, 1983, a national team of plague experts were trapping rodents and talking with residents about a young rancher who was killed by bubonic plague. Doctors said the young man apparently was bitten by diseased fleas as he skinned an infested fox about a week before he fell ill and died.
In Beaumont, Texas in 6-83, a 42 year old man contracted cholera. He apparently came down with the disease after eating seafood which he had caught himself. The clipping did not specify which species of sea food, but more than likely it was a scavenger species which the man caught and ate.
These few articles
prove that you might be
killed if you would kill and/or eat the unclean things which Yahweh
said are not to be eaten. But, preachers deceived by Satan
continue to
tell you to eat anything that can't eat you first.
What scriptures do Baal's preachers use to justify the breaking of the Dietary Laws of Yahweh? Many of them twist the Tenth and Eleventh Chapters of Acts to their own destruction as Kepha said they would.
As also in all his letters, speaking in them about these things, in which are some things hard to be understood, which those who are unlearned and unstable twist, as they also do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.
The deceived preachers of Baal would tell you that Acts 10 and 11 was the time the Savior came and made all things clean, and now you can simply eat anything your heart desires because Yahshua Messiah came and cleansed the pig.
Do those Scriptures really say that? Let us examine Acts 10 and 11 to see what Yahweh actually meant in the vision which the apostle Kepha had. We find in Acts 10:1-6, that Yahweh's Holy Spirit had just drawn a Gentile by the name of Cornelius:
There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the Italian Cohort:
Cornelius was a devout man.
A devout man and one who reverenced Yahweh, as did all his household; and he gave many alms to the people, and prayed to Yahweh continually.
The word devout comes from the Greek word eusebes. It is listed as word #2152 in the Strong's Greek Dictionary and means reverent, pious, religious.
What this means is that Yahweh's Holy
Spirit
had called Cornelius to reverence Yahweh, because no man can come to
reverence Yahweh unless Yahweh's Holy Spirit draws him.
No man can come to Me, unless the Father, Who has sent Me, draws him; and I will establish him as a priest.
3 About the ninth hour of the day; about 3:00 in the afternoon, he clearly saw in a vision a malak of Yahweh coming toward him, and saying to him; Cornelius!
4 And when he looked upon him, he was afraid, and said; What is it, Ruler? And he said to him; Your prayers and your alms have come up as a memorial before Yahweh.
Verse 4 shows this man's desire to
be
shown the way to salvation was met. Yahweh sent the malak to instruct
Cornelius as to whom he should seek to be taught these things.
5 And now send men to Yaffo, and have them invite here one Simon, whose surname is Kepha.
6 He is lodging with one Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the seaside. He will tell you what you must do.
At this point I would like the reader to understand that at that time no Yahdai would teach or have anything to do with a Gentile. The Yahdaim looked on Gentiles as unclean because the Gentiles did not regard or keep the clean food Laws in Leviticus 11, making themselves abominable.
You shall not make yourselves abominable with any creature that moves about on the ground. Do not defile yourselves by means of them, nor be made unclean by them.
Yahdaim were allowed to give or sell food to a stranger or alien that they would not eat themselves.
Do not eat anything you find already dead. You may give it to a foreigner in any of your towns, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a stranger. But you are a people holy to Yahweh your Father. You must not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Gentiles were considered as dogs or swine because most Gentiles ate of all manner of unclean beasts.
Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine; or they will trample them under their feet, then turn around and rend you.
Remember, Cornelius was not one who broke Yahweh's Laws. Acts 10:2 says Cornelius was a man who had been called by Yahweh's Holy Spirit, and as a consequence, he was striving to reverence Yahweh and was practicing Yahweh's righteousness, which is the keeping of Yahweh's Laws (Deuteronomy 6:25), including Yahweh's Dietary Laws .
Kepha was a Yahdai, brought up in the Laws of Yahweh, and he knew and kept the dietary Laws of the clean and unclean.
The malak instructed Cornelius, who was a Gentile who had now been called by Yahweh's Holy Spirit, to go to this man who was a Yahdai, Kepha, for instruction and knowledge (Acts 10:6).
7 And when the malak who spoke to Cornelius had left, he summoned two of his household servants, and a devout soldier from among his own personal attendants.
8 And when he had explained the matter to them, he sent them to Yaffo.
9 The next day, as they went on their journey, and drew near the city, Kepha went up onto the housetop to pray about the sixth hour; around 12:00 noon.
10 Now he became very hungry, and wanted something to eat; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
This was a vision, for Kepha fell into a trance. Kepha saw in this vision:
11 And envisioned heaven being opened, and something like a great sheet lowered by the four corners, descending to the earth.
12 And within it were all kinds of four-footed beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and birds of the air.
13 And there came a voice to him; Rise, Kepha; kill and eat.
14 But Kepha said; By no means, Ruler, for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.
Notice verse 14. At that time Kepha had never eaten anything unclean. This was some twenty years after the death and resurrection of Yahshua Messiah. If Yahshua taught Kepha to eat unclean flesh, why had Kepha not eaten it?
The fact is, Yahshua did not abrogate or break in any way the Laws of Yahweh, and he taught others these same Laws were to be kept.
17 Do not even think that I have come to destroy the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to destroy them, but to establish them.
18 For truly I say to you; Unless heaven and earth passes away, one yodh__the smallest of the letters__will in no way pass from the Law, until all things are perfected.
19 Whosoever, therefore, will break one of the least of these Laws, and will teach men so, he will be called the least in the Kingdom of Yahweh; but whosoever will do and teach them, the same will be called great in the Kingdom of Yahweh.
Yahshua clearly said in this Scripture the Law of Yahweh will not be done away, nor will even the least part of the Law of Yahweh be done away.
You may ask any one of Baal's preachers what Kepha's vision meant, and they will tell you it meant you can now eat anything, clean or unclean. They will tell you this vision showed the Laws of the Clean and Unclean meats were done away. They will tell you Yahshua Messiah cleansed the pig, and all other unclean things.
Remember Acts 10:12. The sheet contained all manner of creeping things—cockroaches, waterbugs, and dung beetles. Four-footed beasts and wild beasts were named—skunks, rats, mice, dogs, foxes, elephants, donkeys, horses, camels, the rhinoceros, etc. Fowls of the air are mentioned, the buzzard, vultures.
Did Kepha jump up and down and shout for joy that he could now eat all of these cleansed things? No! Absolutely not!
How can Baal's preachers say Acts 10 meant everything on that sheet was now clean to eat when Kepha did not even know at that time what the vision meant?
Now while Kepha was wondering within himself what this vision which he had seen meant, behold, the men who had been sent from Cornelius had asked where Simon's house was, and stood in front of the gate.
While Kepha wondered, Yahweh's Holy Spirit said to him, three men seek you (Acts 10:19). These three men were the men Cornelius sent to find Kepha (Acts 10:8). These three men said to Kepha:
22 And they said; Cornelius the centurion, a just man, one who reverences Yahweh and has a righteous reputation among the whole nation of the Yahdaim, was instructed by a holy malak to send and have you brought to his house, and to listen to your words; your teachings pertaining to the Law and the Prophets.
Notice here, Cornelius had a righteous report among the Yahdaim. Anyone living contrary to all or any one of Yahweh's Laws, including the Dietary Laws of the clean and the unclean beasts, would not have any righteous report with any observant Yahdai.
What did Kepha do next?
22 And they said; Cornelius the centurion, a just man, one who reverences Yahweh and has a righteous reputation among the whole nation of the Yahdaim, was instructed by a holy malak to send and have you brought to his house, and to listen to your words; your teachings pertaining to the Law and the Prophets.
23 Then he invited them in and lodged them. The next day Kepha went away with them, and certain brothers from Yaffo accompanied him.
24 Then the next day after that, they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and close friends.
25 And as Kepha was entering, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.
In Acts 10:27 we find that many had come together to hear what Kepha had to tell them. We are told what Kepha's vision actually meant in:
And he said to them; You yourselves are aware how it is not lawful for a Yahdai to associate with one of another nation, or to enter his house; but Yahweh has shown me that I must not call any man common or unclean.
As I said previously in this article, and Acts 10:28 affirms my statement, it was considered unlawful for an observant Yahdai, even one who had accepted Yahshua as the Messiah and Savior by the will of Yahweh, to keep company with a Gentile, no matter how observant that Gentile was of Yahweh's Laws.
This vision was not to show Kepha that all manner of unclean beasts, creeping things, etc. were now clean. This vision was to show that anyone, no matter what color or nationality he might be, when he turns to Yahweh and becomes clean, he is no longer to be considered common or unclean.
Acts 10:28 did not tell Kepha that
he
or anyone else could now eat anything that walked on the Earth as
Baal's preachers would tell you. This vision showed Kepha that he
should call no man
common or unclean:
Because of this, I came without objection when I was sent for. So now I ask, for what reason have you sent for me?
Do you think Kepha, an observant Yahdai, would have gone with a man of another nation without Yahweh's guidance, especially without hesitation? Kepha then asked (Acts 10:29), "For what reason have you sent for me?'' Cornelius then tells Kepha what the malak told him to do to contact Kepha (Acts 10:4-6, 31-33) We are then told why Kepha was guided by Yahweh to go to Cornelius in:
So I immediately sent for you, and you have done a kind thing by coming. Now, therefore, we are all present before Yahweh, to hear all the things commanded you by Yahweh.
Yahweh's way included the teaching of the clean and unclean foods Law as it is written in Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14. Before this time, Yahweh's way had not been brought to the Gentiles. Only Yahweh can cleanse.
15 And the voice came to him again a second time; What Yahweh has cleansed, you must not call common.
16 This was done three times, then the sheet was taken up to heaven again.
34 Then Kepha opened his mouth, and said; Of a truth I perceive that Yahweh is no respecter of persons;
35 But in every nation he who reverences Him, and works righteousness, is accepted by Him.
Only those who reverence Yahweh, and who work righteousness, which means to do what Yahweh tells you to do (Deuteronomy 6:25), are accepted by Yahweh, be they Yahdai or Gentile. Kepha knew, through the teachings of Yahshua, that only Yahweh can draw a man to him.
No man can come to Me, unless the Father, Who has sent Me, draws him; and I will establish him as a priest.
Kepha then commanded Cornelius and the others to be immersed (baptized) by the authority of Yahshua Messiah (Acts 10:48). In Acts 11, Kepha rehearses the revelation of Cornelius to the other apostles and brethren.
When they heard these things, they made no further objections, and glorified Yahweh saying; Then Yahweh has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life.
Before this time, repentance was
considered to have only been given to the Yahdaim. After this time, it
was accepted that Yahweh had granted repentance to the Gentile nations
as well. The Gentile nations were to repent of their sins.
We are told what sin is in:
Whoever commits sin, transgresses also the Law; for sin is the transgression of the Law.
To those who were breaking any of Yahweh's Laws, including Yahweh's Dietary Law, Kepha told them to repent.
For whoever keeps the whole Law, and yet offends in one point, he is guilty of all.
Therefore, put away all filthiness and the super-abundance of wickedness, and receive with meekness; humility, the written Law, which is able to save your souls.
We have proven from scripture that no unclean beast, fowl, fish, or creeping thing had been made clean.
Yahweh had also
given repentance to the
Gentile nations if they turned to Him with all their hearts, keeping
all of Yahweh's Laws, including Yahweh's clean and unclean food Laws,
and then they would be clean to Yahweh.
Other scriptures Baal's preachers twist to their own destruction are:
1 Now the Spirit speaks very plainly, that in the latter times some will depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons (elohim);
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared as with a hot iron,
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from instruction which Yahweh created to be received with thanksgiving by the believers—by those who fully know the truth.
4 For Yahweh founded by ordinance; established in His Law, everything that is righteous and suitable; and no one is to condemn that instruction which can be received with thanksgiving,
5 For it is sanctified; ordained, through the word of Yahweh, and prayer.
We are told, in I Timothy 4:1, that some will depart from the Faith. What Faith are these people departing from?
3 Beloved when I gave all diligence to write to you about the common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you, and exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith which was once, for all, delivered to the saints.
4 For there are certain men who have secretly crept in, who were before of old ordained for this condemnation, unholy men, who turn the undeserved pardon of our One Supreme Savior Yahweh into licentiousness, and deny Yahshua our Messiah.
These people are departing from the faith once delivered by Yahweh.
The word licentiousness as written in Yahdah 1:4 is listed as word #766 in the Strong's Greek Dictionary, and means license to sin. Sin is the breaking of the Law of Yahweh.
These people Shaul was describing to Timothy were teaching that they had a license to sin, to break Yahweh's Laws, because they now had Yahshua and did not need the Law. In doing this, they were denying Yahweh and Yahshua, and did not have the truth in them.
To the Law and to the Prophecy: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
Doctrines of demons are spoken of in I Timothy 4:1. Satan and her demons were against Yahweh's Law from the beginning of mankind. Satan desires to destroy man because she knows one day men will become Sons of Yahweh.
Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of Yahweh! Therefore, the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.
4 He who says: I know Him, but does not keep His Law, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
7 Brothers, I write no new commandments to you, but the old commandments which you had from the beginning: The old Laws are the Laws which you had from the beginning.
Certain strictly vegetarian groups forbid the eating of even the clean meats Yahweh created to be received.
For it is sanctified; ordained, through the word of Yahweh, and prayer.
We showed at the beginning of this article that Yahweh created many meats that were to be eaten. In I Timothy 4:5, the Holy Scriptures speak of things sanctified by the word of Yahweh.
What meats are sanctified (set apart) by the word of Yahweh? Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14 lists the meats that were set apart by the word of Yahweh. These meats that were set apart were made for man to eat.
The remaining beasts, fish, fowl and creeping things were not created to be eaten. They were created for a different purpose. The buzzard was made to keep the earth free of dead animals, etc. The swine was created for this same purpose: garbage disposals for Earth.
The unclean
fish were made like the
buzzard
and swine to keep the waters
clean of garbage and human waste. That is
why unclean sealife such as oysters, clams, lobsters, crabs,
etc., are
most plentiful where human waste is dumped.
You may notice that a chicken will eat anything a swine will eat, but the chicken is considered fit to eat, and the swine is considered unclean according to the Word of Yahweh.
The chicken has a crop and a stomach. The clean beasts are ruminants. They have two stomachs. The digestive system of the clean fish is made to filter poison out of its system, or die from the poison.
The clean beasts, etc. all have this distinctive digestive system. Their systems are designed to filter out anything that might be harmful to mankind.
The unclean beasts, etc. do not have a digestive system that filters out poisons, because they were never meant to be eaten by man, according to the Word of Yahweh.
We have now
proven, according to
Scripture,
what creatures of Yahweh were sanctified by His word as fit to eat.
I know someone will say: It is not that which goes into the mouth which defiles a man, but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man. Mattithyah 15:11.
Yahshua also promised if Yahweh's people drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them. Yahchanan Mark 16:18. Does this mean we are to include poison in our diets? No! For we are not to tempt Yahweh.
Yahshua said to her; It is also written: You must not test Yahweh your Father.
When we deliberately break Yahweh's Laws, knowing He has said these are unclean to you, and eat them anyway, this comes from the heart, and this defiles a man.
18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile the man.
19 For out of the heart proceeds evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornication, thefts, false witness, blasphe-mies__the breaking of Yahweh's Law!
20 These are the things which defile a man. Nevertheless, does not eating with unwashed hands also defile a man?
The desire to break Yahweh's Law comes from the heart (Mattithyah 15:18). Yahweh tells us in Leviticus 11:43-44 not to make ourselves abominable, unclean, and defiled by disobeying him. Yahweh tells us in:
46 This is the law of the animals, and the birds, and every living thing that moves in the waters, and every creature that moves about on the ground.
47 You must distinguish between the unclean and the clean—between the animal that may be eaten, and the animal that may not be eaten.
When we break any of Yahweh's Laws, we are committing sin, and sin brings death.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of Yahweh is eternal life through Yahshua Messiah, our Savior.
The Law of protection Yahshua Messiah spoke of in Yahchanan Mark 16:18 applies only to those who strive diligently to live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh.
But He answered, and said; It is written: Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of Yahweh.
The Apostle Shaul had this protection from accidents, because Shaul lived by and taught others all of Yahweh's Laws. Shaul said anything else was carnal.
Therefore the Law is holy, and the commandments are holy, and just, and righteous.
Because the carnal mind is enmity against; bitterly opposed to, Yahweh; for it is not subject to the Law of Yahweh, nor indeed can be.
13 For if you live according to the commandments of men, you will die; but if, through the Spirit, you put to death the evildoing of mankind, you will live.
14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of Yahweh, they are the sons of Yahweh!
This was Shaul's teaching in all of his letters. That is why he was protected. Yahshua said anyone who lived for Yahweh would be protected. We find a promise of protection from poison in:
They will take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; and they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.
An example of this protection is found in:
1 And when they had escaped to safety, then they found that the island was called Malta.
2 And the barbarous people showed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire and looked after every one of us, because it began to rain and was very cold.
3 And when Shaul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
4 Now when the barbarians saw the venomous creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another; No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped the sea, justice would not allow to live.
5 But he shook the creature off into the fire, and suffered no harm.
6 Despite this, they expected him to swell or to suddenly fall down dead; but after they had waited a long while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god (el).
When we deliberately break the Laws of Yahweh, Yahweh turns his face and protection away from us; we have, as a result, cut ourselves off from him. Yahweh will not even hear our prayers, much less protect us from evil around us.
16 And Yahweh said to Mosheh: Behold, you are going to rest with your fathers, and these people will soon prostitute themselves to the gods (elohim) of the land which they are entering; they will forsake Me, and break the covenant which I made with them.
17 On that day I will become angry with them, and I will forsake them. I will hide My face from them, and they will be devoured. Many evils and troubles will then befall them, and on that day they will ask; Have not these disasters come upon us because our Father is not with us?
18 And I will surely hide My face in that day, because of all the evil they have done by turning to hinder gods (elohim).
1 Behold, Yahweh's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear.
2 But your own iniquities have separated you from your Father; and your own sins have caused Him to hide His face from you, so He will not listen.
Yahweh decreed His dietary Laws. In order to please Yahweh, we should be obedient to Him.